Course Overview

This training course is designed to help you understand the extensibility options available for Build connectors and plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot. You learn about the different ways to extend Copilot, including building plugins and connectors, and how to choose the right option for your use case. The course also covers best practices for building high-quality plugins and connectors, as well as data, privacy, and security considerations. Whether you’re a pro-code or low/no-code developer, this course helps you chart your path to extending and customizing Build connectors and plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

What you’ll learn

After completing this learning path, students will be able to:

• Describe the business value, benefits, and limitations of extending Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Examine use cases for different extensibility options.
• Optimize your plugins for use with Copilot.
• Apply best practices for building high-quality plugins for Copilot.
• Understand data, privacy, and security considerations for plugins and connectors.
• Understand what message extensions are and how to build them
• Create a message extension
• Understand how to authenticate users using single sign-on and call a custom API protected with Microsoft Entra authentication
• Understand how to extend and optimize message extensions for use with Microsoft 365 Copilot
• Understand the purpose and functionality of Teams Message Extensions as plugins in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Learn how to set up a development environment and run the Northwind Inventory application.
• Gain practical experience in running the application as a message extension in Microsoft Teams and Outlook.
• Run the application as a plugin for Microsoft 365 Copilot and experiment with prompting.
• Develop skills in adding new commands to the application to expand the plugin capabilities and perform more tasks.
• Understand the underlying code of the application and how it works in more depth.